#tho never solely witches bc tbh catholics weren't as invested in that as protestants that's why one had to be guilty of truly believing | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

skimblygifs · 2 months ago

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Yes, and I do assume that play/film is what most directly inspired the lyric! However, the play still takes its title from this ritual, and in-universe lightly modifies it from an excommunication of heretics to an exorcism; both about expelling evil from an environment. Pairing that with the deliberate inclusion of Pyewacket as a name, imo the connection back to the root of the phrase is v much still there to be drawn.

Audacious as Hell for Jellicles to base part of their identity on symbols of Catholic Excommunication after making Griz Anathema

#but yes i fully concur that the most straightforward explanation of the lyric #and the immediate modern-day association of the phrase with witchcraft #come from. tbh probably more from the movie than the play it adapts rip #but since i was leaning on the older origins that bell book and candle is itself invoking. i was looking for what would cause #Druten to associate the phrase with witches enough to name his play after it #and tbh maybe it's just bc it's a ritual and it translates rather well lol.#but also to be both a practitioner and true believer in witchcraft was considered heresy in the early medieval timeframe #and anathema was applied to heretics #tho never solely witches bc tbh catholics weren't as invested in that as protestants that's why one had to be guilty of truly believing #in the witchcraft they were doing. which is kind of like. honor code based lol #does this make sense? like geuninely lmao ik i'm reaching #it's the adhd hyperfocus spiral + getting unofficially trained in school to find the Medieval Christianity Influences alsiuhf

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